China beat its annual target by lifting 12.4 million people out of poverty in 2016, official data showed Tuesday.

March 1, 2017

China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Tuesday released a report on the country's economic and social development in 2016.

NBS deputy chief Li Xiaochao said that the report highlighted stable economic growth, an elevation of growth quality, steady jobs growth and progress in quality of life.

March 1, 2017

The "targeted poverty alleviation" strategy launched by China has not only managed to bring numerous Chinese people out of poverty, but has also provided enlightenment to other countries.

March 2, 2017

Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli on Friday called for coherent efforts to ensure the preparatory work for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games are green, inclusive, open and clean.

Zhang made the remarks at a high-level meeting which was attended by officials from relevant government departments, along with the heads of co-hosts Beijing and neighboring Hebei Province.

March 2, 2017

The latest figures from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MHRSS) show that China managed to create jobs more than 13 million urban jobs for four consecutive years, despite downward pressure and industrial restructuring in the Chinese economy.

March 3, 2017

China's top political advisory body started its annual session Friday in Beijing, ushering in a political high season that will continue with the opening of the country's top legislature Sunday.

Yu Zhengsheng, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, delivered a work report to more than 2,000 political advisors who gathered to discuss major political, economic and social issues in the world's most populous nation and second-largest economy.

Top Communist Party of China and state leaders Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli attended the opening meeting at the Great Hall of the People.

March 5,2017

The fifth session of the 12th National People`s Congress opens at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2017.

March 5,2017

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivers a government work report during the opening meeting of the fifth session of China`s 12th National People`s Congress (NPC) in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2017.

March 7, 2017

More than 36 million students from 134,000 primary and junior high schools in impoverished rural regions have benefited from China's nutrition improvement program since its implementation in 2011, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said recently.

March 7, 2017

China on Monday questioned the findings of a United States human rights report and cautioned against using the issue of human rights to interfere in China's internal affairs.

March 9, 2017

A group of Chinese human rights scholars on Wednesday elaborated the idea of a community of shared future for mankind in the context of human rights governance, saying interpretation of human rights ideas cannot be taken out of their cultural contexts.

Speaking during a side event at the ongoing 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Chinese scholars highlighted that the protection and guarantee of human rights do not mean sharing burdens, but sharing responsibilities.

The side event, which was jointly organized by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and China's Permanent Mission to the United Nations at Geneva, centered around the theme of "Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind: a New Approach to Global Human Rights Governance."

March 9, 2017

China published a report on the United States' human rights situation on Thursday.

The report, titled "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2016," was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, in response to "the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016" issued by the U.S. State Department on March 3 local time.

March 9, 2017

The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China published a document titled "Chronology of Human Rights Violations of the United States in 2016" on Thursday.

March 13, 2017

From March 2 to 3, 2017, Special Representative for Human Rights Affairs and Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences of the Foreign Ministry Liu Hua co-chaired the 10th China-Switzerland Human Rights Dialogue with Special Envoy for Human Rights Issues at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Negri of Switzerland in Bern.

March 17,2017

The full text of the Report on the Work of the Government delivered by Premier Li Keqiang at the Fifth Session of the 12th National People's Congress on March 5, 2017 and adopted on March 15, 2017.

March 17, 2017

The 34th Session of the UN Human Rights Council held in Geneva from Feb. 27 to March 24, 2017. Delegation of the China Society for Human Rights Studies presented this session and held a side event together with China`s Permanent Mission to the United Nations at Geneva.

March 21, 2017

Ma Zhaoxu, head of the Chinese mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Monday called upon international community to improve global human rights governance.

March 24, 2017

China has provided household registration permits to nearly 14 million unregistered citizens over the past four years, according to the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on Thursday.

March 27, 2017

President Xi Jinping's call for inclusive and sustainable globalization received international recognition and support at the Boao Forum for Asia, with participants agreeing that greater inclusiveness and fairness are needed to ensure shared benefits and common prosperity.

March 29, 2017

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday called for deepening coordinated reform of medical services, health insurance, and the pharmaceutical industry.

March 29, 2017

Officials and thousands of members of the public gathered in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on Tuesday to celebrate Serfs' Emancipation Day.

March 29, 2017

China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday jointly announced the launch of a strategic plan in a bid to reduce hunger in China and other developing countries.